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Lesson Summary:

Nahum declares how God is the Deliverer of His people and the Destroyer of His enemies.

Focus Passage: Nahum 1.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. The Lord, the God Almighty, an Awesome God (Nahum 1:1-8)

Principle: God is Worthy of Our Fear and Reverence.
Application: What is your view of God? Do you view Him only as a benevolent Father or do you understand His full character and awesomeness? How does your life show you live in the fear and reverence of the Lord?
Scripture Reference

²⁹How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
³⁰For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.³¹It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10:29-31 (NASB)

II. The Lord, the God who Delivers His People (Nahum 1:9-15)

Principle: God is the Great Deliverer of His People.
Application: What has the Lord delivered you from? Where do you need His deliverance power today?
Scripture Reference

²⁶and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
²⁷“This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”
Romans 11:26-27 (NASB)